127: War of the Regents

Tomb relief from Termessos, thought to be the tomb of Alkestas via Wikimedia

Within just two years of Alexander the Great’s death, the conqueror’s empire shattered into civil war as Perdiccas threatened the most powerful nobles in the empire to solidify his own power as regent. Together with Eumenes, Alkestas, and a host of loyalists generals, the Perdiccid faction faced down Antipater, Antigonus, Craterus, and Ptolemy. It was the First War of the Diadochi, the First War of the Successors.
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